Items with tag “vanport”

July 09, 2015, 3:41PM

Vanport was the largest of several housing projects that were built in Portland, starting in 1942, to house the thousand of newcomers who moved to the city to work in the shipyards during World War II. Various estimates say as many as 50,000 people or more lived in the community at its peak. It was washed away in a flood...

April 19, 2015, 10:52AM

The new OPB "Oregon Experience" documentary, "Portland Civil Rights: Lift Ev'ry Voice," explores the history of Portland's African American community and its struggle for equality in the years following World War Ii and continuing through the 1980s. Full story »

March 11, 2015, 3:27PM

Concordia University professor Shawn Daley (left) and graduate student Matthew Blanchard examine signs Portland State University students put up more than a decade ago to document Vanport, a large Oregon city destroyed by a flood in 1948.

March 11, 2015, 3:24PM

A decade or so ago, Portland State University students put up signs along the land that once held Vanport, Oregon's second largest and most diverse city. Concordia professor Shawn Daley and Concordia graduate student Matthew Blanchard recently went on a tour of all the signs.

March 11, 2015, 3:17PM

Once, Victory Boulevard was Vanport's main drag. Now it's the way into a golf course. One February 2015 morning, a man teed up. A heron cut across the sky. A Labrador puppy ran down the road where thousands ambled to work.